Everything we've learned about moving to Portugal and living a calmer life — taxes, visas, paperwork, property and the hygge in between.
If you have been 1 year in Portugal before giving birth, your child could be eligible for Portuguese nationality at birth. This means that literally days after…
RESIDENTS IN PORTUGAL CAN ALSO REQUEST THE CHAVE MÓVEL DIGITAL (CMD) The Chave Móvel Digital (CMD) can be requested by Portuguese and residents to carry out online services. The Chave Móvel Digital (CMD), created in 2014, is a secure mean of authentication to prove identity, allowing users, Portugue
After moving to Portugal, I think the most asked question is how to get a remote job or how you can become a true digital nomad. As I probably started the digital nomad lifestyle back in 2008-2009 I have been doing this since before it was invented and I have a few things you should […]
Who am I to tell you this? No one, just yet another expat spending a few years in Portugal. However, I've seen more than 100+ houses for sale, inspected them,…
Good news! The Portuguese Government has decided to update the law and the maximum deposits are now limited to the amount equal to 2 months’ rent. For the longest time since the introduction of NHR, we have seen a rental market under increasing pressure. We have seen 12 monthly contracts where the l
Having lived outside of my own country since 19 years old I have truly felt the pain of high roaming costs related to retaining my old local phone number. We…
I realise that the more we learn about the property market here in Portugal, the more there is to learn. We are looking for a main home. The main requirement is that we want to be a reasonable commuting distance to school. We don’t have grand criteria otherwise and we are prepared to do renovations
When you transfer funds from your home country into a bank account in Portugal there is a few things you need to look out for… There is a transaction fee for IBAN – this can easily be from $2-$10 – or sometimes 1%. When you are changing the currency from GBP, USD etc then into […]
We’ve now had Covid-19 around for just over a year. Suddenly every single home now has some sort of home office. Some work at the dinner table or wherever else in the house they are able to find a spot. If you are one of those people that have realised, that this “working from home” […]
I left my ‘home’ country Denmark back in 2010. I always like to be able to watch programs from there, however it’s restricted. Furthermore, my wife being from the UK has the same issue with everything from BBC, ITV, subscription services such as HULU, Amazon Prime, and the UK version of Netflix. Jus
Unfortunately there are many properties in Portugal that have damp / mold. Damp is like a plant, it’s grows and spreads. Therefore it needs to be prevented or managed by establishing the cause. It’s not always something that easily can be removed but there are definitely things you can do to reduce
Wow, learning Portuguese is not easy. It’s the pronunciation and the complexity of the grammar that makes it tough for me. Ask me to say anything with a double r such as Carro (Car) and my throat immediately tenses up. My Portuguese teacher told me that it’s the same sound you make when you have […]